RandomStickman to Everett True Comics@midwest.social • 2 months agoEverett is no come-on or a rubefedia.ioimagemessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up153arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up151arrow-down1imageEverett is no come-on or a rubefedia.ioRandomStickman to Everett True Comics@midwest.social • 2 months agomessage-square15fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@m_f@midwest.sociallinkfedilink4•2 months agoLooks like there’s a generic sense of “Someone advertising for customers in an aggressive way.”, but even more relevant here it can mean “A person, at a racecourse, who offers supposedly inside information on which horse is likely to win.”
minus-square@topherclay@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink4•2 months agoLooks like that horse racing use was also interestingly closer to the original use of the word. Fun that it was a thieves’ cant as well.
Looks like there’s a generic sense of “Someone advertising for customers in an aggressive way.”, but even more relevant here it can mean “A person, at a racecourse, who offers supposedly inside information on which horse is likely to win.”
Looks like that horse racing use was also interestingly closer to the original use of the word. Fun that it was a thieves’ cant as well.